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The departments of Energy and the Treasury are offering $150 million in tax credits for clean-energy and energy-efficiency manufacturing businesses. The tax credits come from unspent funds under the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit. "Manufacturing the clean energy products of the future in America will create good, middle-class jobs right now and help law the groundwork for the long-term resilience of our economy," said acting Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin.

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A $150 million sugarcane ethanol plant is being proposed in Paraguay by Roberto Rezende Barbosa, one of Cosan Industria & Comercio's biggest shareholders. "Paraguay is a free market, and because there's no price control there we can actually make money from sugarcane processing," said Barbosa, who owns a 10.9% stake in Cosan with his brothers. The proposed mill would have the capacity to produce 10.1 million gallons of ethanol and more than 90,000 metric tons of sugar annually, Barbosa said.

A division of GranBio Investimentos will receive a $149.6 million loan from Brazilian development bank BNDES for work on a facility to manufacture ethanol from crop residue. The facility is expected to have the capacity to make 22 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol from sugarcane residue annually, BNDES said.

A fiscal 2013 spending bill unveiled by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development included $150 million for research and development at USEC's proposed American Centrifuge Plant in Ohio. This follows a House subcommittee's inclusion of $100 million in a spending measure for the same purpose. However, the money is just a fraction of what the company has said it needs to proceed with the project.

USEC's American Centrifuge Project in Ohio would get about $150 million under President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal 2013 budget. The money would be allocated for research and development to improve the project's technology. "Inclusion in the president's budget affirms that the American Centrifuge is a national priority, and we welcome this strong signal of support," said John Welch, USEC's president and CEO.

Springleaf Investments, Greenwich Asset Holding and Lionfish Investments will invest a combined total of $150 million in Clean Energy Fuels to build fueling infrastructure for liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas. Clean Energy is continuously expanding its natural gas infrastructure to service various fleets across the U.S., company President and CEO Andrew Littlefair said.